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A Child is Born…

25 January, 20092 February, 2009 by Alistair

Born – 24th January 0555 – 7 pounds, 15 ounces As you can imagine – no posts for a while 🙂 Talk amongst yourselves.

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Happy Christmas!

24 December, 2008 by Alistair
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PETA and the new anti fishing campaign – fishing blog reactions!

7 December, 20088 December, 2008 by Alistair

While reading some other fishing blogs I could not help notice people are discussing the new “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals” (PETA) anti fishing campaign. In case you did not know PETA campaign for any kind of injustice against animals, for example: eating them, using their skin for clothes (wool & leather etc), keeping them as…

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Fishing = Good looking Wives and Girlfriends

22 November, 200823 November, 2008 by Alistair

So a few people have posted pictures of their better half’s on their blogs and I have came to a startling conclusion (although I have suspected it for some time) – Fisherman have better looking wives and girlfriends than anyone else. North Country Angler Pike Fly Fishing Articles Fly Fish Magazine Trout underground The River…

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Talking of best catches…

16 November, 2008 by Alistair

I noticed Murdock over at Flyfish Magazine is posting pictures of his wife to gain some brownie points – nice thinking ! Here is a picture of my long suffering wife of three years (to be fair though we have been together 12)  Do I need to tell you what she puts up with? Maybe…

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Backhand compliments..

29 October, 200830 October, 2008 by Alistair

I am laid up with a rather nasty throat bug.  I was looking through some of the blogs I visit when I came across this post over at Taunted by Waters. Essentially someone had linked to him and pointed out that he did not do much fishing however his writing was good for a read…

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We are gathered here today…

15 October, 2008 by Alistair

North Country Angler wrote a great post about death and dying – well, not really great – more sombre and well written – you know what I mean! Anyway, it got me thinking – he rose some very good points about where he wanted his ashes to be scattered and where probably they should not…

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Fridays..

18 September, 200818 September, 2008 by Alistair

That Friday feeling is great – you wake up in the morning and you just know you only have a few hours to go before you are the longest time period away from being back at work on the Monday – between those two points you must fill in as much time as possible fishing…

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Can it be two years already?

3 September, 20083 September, 2008 by Alistair

A day of remembrance on Urban Fly Fisher. Stephen Robert Irwin (February 22, 1962 – September 4, 2006) Lets hope the fish don’t keep fighting back!

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Happy (belated) 5th Birthday to Me…

23 August, 200823 August, 2008 by Alistair

I was looking over at Tamanawis and noticed he was having a wee birthday. I then decided to have a look at my own stats and noticed that I have just past my own 5th birthday of blogging about fishing. Way back in the beginning I remember emailing Marshall Cutchin at Midcurrent who was one…

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